School holidays 2020/2021: Christmas, February ... dates and calendar, zone by zone

The Covid-19 epidemic is still raging as the long-awaited Christmas holidays approach.

The reconfinement remains in force throughout France.

Emmanuel Macron is due to speak on November 24, probably to discuss the terms of a gradual deconfinement with, perhaps, a curfew, in view of the end of the year celebrations and New Year's Day.

While waiting for the announcements from the executive, you can already try to organize your next family vacation, whether in the mountains or skiing, in the sun in France or further afield.

When to go?

Here is all the useful information on the dates of school holidays in the three academic zones A, B and C, in order to anticipate the February holidays, those of Easter or the May holidays.

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What are the dates of the next school holidays?

After the All Saints holidays, the next school holidays are scheduled for

.

The dates will be common to the three zones A, B and C, from Saturday December 19, 2020 to Monday January 4, 2021, according to the calendar of the Ministry of National Education.

For the

and

holidays

on the other hand, the holidays will be staggered.

The dates depend on the area in which your academy is located.

The dates of the

are common to the three zones.

What are the dates of the 2020-2021 school holidays in each zone?

This year, primary, middle and high school students will also

, the dates of which run from Wednesday May 12, 2021 to Monday May 17, 2021. The last bell of the school year will sound on Tuesday 6 July 2021, giving the start of the summer vacation.

Map: are you in zone 1, B or C?

What are the school holiday dates for zone A?

Zone A brings together the academies of Besançon, Bordeaux, Clermont-Ferrand, Dijon, Grenoble, Limoges, Lyon and Poitiers.

The schoolchildren, college and high school students concerned will be on Christmas vacation from December 19, 2020 to January 4, 2021, like the others.

However, they will be on vacation first this winter.

There will be no school from February 6 to February 22, 2021. In the spring, it will be April 10 to 26 and, again, zone A students will be the first on vacation.

What are the school holiday dates for zone B?

You are part of zone B if you are educated in the academies of Aix-Marseille, Amiens, Caen, Lille, Nancy-Metz, Nantes, Nice, Orléans-Tours, Reims, Rennes, Rouen and Strasbourg.

The students concerned will be on

vacation

from December 19, 2020 to January 4, 2021, like the others.

The dates of their

and

holidays

are scheduled offset from zones A and C, from February 20 to March 6, 2021, and from April 24 to May 10.

What are the school holiday dates for zone C?

Zone C brings together the academies of Créteil, Montpellier, Paris, Toulouse and Versailles.

The Christmas holidays will extend as for the other zones from December 19, 2020 to January 4, 2021.

Winter vacation will be from February 13 to March 1, and spring vacation from April 17 to May 3.

The vacation dates for the academies of Corsica, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Martinique, Réunion, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon are specific.

To find out about them, you can consult the government website.

What are the public holidays in 2020/2021?

Of the 11 annual holidays, only four this year do not fall during school holidays or a weekend.

These are the armistice of World War I, Easter Monday, Ascension Day and Pentecost Monday.

Public holidays 2020/2021:

• All Saints Day:

  Sunday November 1, 2020

• The armistice of the first world war:

  Wednesday 11 November 2020

• Christmas:

  Friday December 25, 2020

• New Year's Day:

  Friday January 1, 2021

• Easter

  Monday

  :

  Monday April 5, 2021

• Labor Day:

  Saturday May 1, 2021

• The end of the Second World War:

  Saturday, May 8, 2021

• L'Ascension:

  Thursday, May 13, 2021

• Whit

  Monday

  :

  Monday May 24, 2021

• National Day:

  Wednesday July 14, 2021

• The feast of the Assumption:

  Sunday August 15, 2021

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